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Inspiring
February 26, 2025
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Symbol Bounding Box

  • February 26, 2025
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Hello,

 

Possibly an amateur question, but I'm having trouble finding out why my symbol's bounding box is so much larger than my object. I'm not seeing any stray nodes or anything. I even deleted the drop shadows and any effects to see if that was causing it. Any suggestions are much appreciated!

 

 

 

Correct answer Radiant_Breeze7046

Forgot the photo, but this is it with the gaussian blur turned off, which is still much larger than the invisible box I have for reference.

 


I went back and tried it all again, it appears to be the texturizer expanding the bounding box. Don't know why I didn't catch that before!

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Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 26, 2025

Please go into symbol editing mode and show how the symbols are built.

Or better: share the AI file. You need to rename the file extension to .PDF to do so.

Inspiring
February 26, 2025

Hi Monika,

I wasn't sure what you meant by how it was built besides showing the layers in the image above, so I've attached the file! Thank you for the help!

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 26, 2025

The symbol has blur applied to some elements. Also: there is a rectangle in it that is invisible. But of course the bounding box will reflect all that.